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EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice
Towards New Paradigms for the Provision of Health Care Services?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
EU Health Systems and Distributive Justice uses theories of distributive justice to examine tensions created by the application of the Internal Market rules to the provision of health care services within the European Union.
Using the concepts and principles embedded in the theories of egalitarianism...
What Makes Health Public?
A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in the fields of public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' He offers a conceptual and analytic scrutiny of the salient issues raised by this question, outlines the concepts entailed in, or denoted by, the term 'public health'...
by Jeffrey D. Mamorsky
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2019
Making sense of the nonstop parade of federal and state legislation, regulation and decisional law governing health care benefits is not an easy task. For professionals in the field, however, it is an essential one. Fortunately, there is a comprehensive and practical guide to this complex, evolving...
by Beinsa Douno
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Man’s health depends on the following four things: the power of his soul, the goodness of his soul, the brightness of his mind and the mildness of his heart. In order one to gain these qualities, he shall have knowledge. Everybody has a soul, a heart and a mind, but not everybody has managed to...
Ecological Public Health
Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles.
This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Health Professionals' Education in the Age of Clinical Information Systems, Mobile Computing and Social Networks addresses the challenges posed by information and communication technology to health professionals’ education, and the lessons learned from field experiences and research. This book is...
Patient-Perspective Care
A New Paradigm for Health Systems and Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Inappropriate health care is an escalating and expensive problem. It affects high income, middle income, and low income countries and wastes billions of dollars annually as well as harming individuals and communities. Inappropriate care refers to both the overuse and underuse of tests and treatments...
Power Tools for Health
How pulsed magnetic fields (PEMFs) help you
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Power tools revolutionized the building of your family home.Now they will revolutionize your health.
Power Tools for Health will teach you to how to apply PEMFs to your life. Including:- How to treat new or chronic health conditions like pain, anxiety, insomnia, and diabetes- How you can avoid...
Social Neuroscience and Public Health
Foundations for the Science of Chronic Disease Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
The field of public health is primarily concerned with understanding and improving physical health from a large group perspective (i.e., communities and whole populations). The field of social neuroscience, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with examining brain-behavior relationships that...
Shifting Paradigms in Public Health
From Holism to Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
This transdisciplinary volume outlines the development of public health paradigms across the ages in a global context and argues that public health has seemingly lost its raison d’être, that is, a population perspective. The older, philosophical approach in public health involved a holistic, population-based...
Are Workarounds Ethical?
Managing Moral Problems in Health Care Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
How work gets done in complex health care systems is ethically important. When health care professionals and other staff are pressured to improvise, fix structural problems, or comply with competing policies, the uncertainty and distress they experience have potential consequences for patients, families,...
The Sociology and Politics of Health
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Health care systems, the role of health professionals and the experience of health and illness are all undergoing change and development as we enter the twenty-first century. The Sociology and Politics of Health is a collection of key readings through which to explore the sociological and political...
Narratives, Health, and Healing
Communication Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2005
This distinctive collection explores the use of narratives in the social construction of wellness and illness. Narratives, Health, and Healing emphasizes what the process of narrating accomplishes--how it serves in the health communication process where people define themselves and present their social...
Health 4 Life
User Manual.
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
WHAT IF you could REGAIN CONTROL of your Health? Create an extraordinary quality of life? Your car, your appliances, your electronics… they all came with a USER MANUAL, but YOU didn’t. Unlike any other book on health and wellness, Health 4 Life is the first, practical USER MANUAL of the CREATION...